RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 9, 2021 at 8:43 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2021 at 8:46 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(March 9, 2021 at 8:32 pm)SUNGULA Wrote: So there can't be interruptions as everyone is permitted to speak whenever they want. Thus the rules of etiquette on interruptions don't apply here. Oh and you can be interrupted in private. If I yell through your window while you're talking to someone and you get distracted. I have interrupted you.
Hmm that's a good point lol. But Deborah Tannen has a book on discourse in which she studies the conversational styles of men and women (how men interrupt women specifically).
She argues that an interruption requires two things: For one person to start speaking, and the other person to stop. Therefore, if Nudger starts talking and others stop, an interruption has occurred.